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"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market."
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Source: Gray Davis, conciliatory in defeat, accepts the people's verdict. www.cnn.com. October 8, 2003.
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